S Dorman

MYSTERY GOTTHEIM starts off the second theme in The God's Cycle, entitled God's Wilderness. Mystery Gottheim is a mid-mudseason night's dream. Its landscape is troubled under a burden of soot, falling ash, and drizzle-outpouring of a tire fire creating its own weather. Many of its characters become lost and disoriented in the woods and on the mountain slopes, some with loving partners. Here find apparitions and some scattered bones in an old deserted cemetery. A road appears to some and not to others, the well in a cellar falls to an abyss, a carriage house hides a mysterious vehicle. But, as in any good story, these happenings are not the true surprises. Truth-in-suspense is reserved for life-disturbing spiritual encounter, of the kind that we experience when facing ourselves darkly.

This the fifth book and climax of THE GOD'S CYCLE. Balder's Wilderness is a dark fantasia of the afterlife. Balder Simon, the Gott'imite hero and Vietnam veteran, searches for his lost teenage son, Daniel, on a wooded mountainside in Western Maine. There Balder meets up with a stranger, claiming to be a local and offering to guide him. Perplexed and distrait, Balder agrees, but soon realizing that his love and dedication toward his son may lead him to realms beyond this life and time.